hackneyed
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˈhæknid/
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- She was tired of hearing the same hackneyed excuses for not attending the meeting.
- hackneyed language
- hackneyed expression
- clichés and hackneyed
I mean, it's, I mean, it's so hackneyed to even talk about it, right?
- I mean, it's, I mean, it's so hackneyed to even talk about it, right?
- I mean that that guy should go to jail for life and not and not just for that threat, but for the hackneyed mobster dialogue.
- He says it's it's labeling the genre with the cliches, swords and sorcery that too many people see as being heroic fantasies, hackneyed limits.
Examples
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You know the only thing more tired and hackneyed than the Republican Party?
Blog text (22) -
The most famous (and hackneyed) example is the male peacock's plumage attracting the female peahen.
Academic text (2010) -
I know it's a bit hackneyed, but I seem to go for hackneyed things.
Fiction book (1990) -
And what is more hackneyed than the return home?
Fiction book (1994) -
Yes, even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.
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This hackneyed romantic fantasy we've been having has just about come to an end.
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A type of figure once regarded as original, whimsical, and imaginative may come to seem hackneyed.
Academic text (2000) -
The claim that economic analysis requires superhuman information-processing capabilities is an old and hackneyed criticism of law and economics.
Academic text (1997) -
What if a phrase the writer used was hackneyed—should you improve on it?
Academic text (2003) -
MacEwen is playing slyly with geographical clichés; here the hackneyed "mysterious East" is transformed into her own poetic "mysterious West."
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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4.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it feels boring
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3.4
Ordinary and not special or new
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6.6
Not new or interesting because it is used too often
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
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5.1
Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way
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4.6
A phrase or idea used so often that it is no longer interesting
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4.0
Used so often that it does not feel new and seems boring
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7.9
Not interesting because people use it too often
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6.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it is no longer interesting
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5.4
Not new because people use it too often and it is easy to guess
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4.7
A phrase or idea used so often that it no longer seems new
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7.4
Used so often it feels like a boring idea
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6.8
No longer new or fashionable
Not original, dull and trying to seem important
Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times
Something that is common and not special
Antonyms
How Unoriginal
Surface Forms
Morphology
hackneyed = hackney (semi-transparent) = hackney + ed
Formed regularly from the verb 'hackney' + -ed, but the verb's meaning is uncommon and historically derived, so it's not fully obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Hackneyed comes from Hackney, a part of London, where people long ago hired ordinary horses and carriages called hackneys. Because these rides were common and used all the time, hackneyed came to mean 'used so often that it is no longer interesting'.